[tiburon]

Alright, so I have a 360 that has spent years as a Halo machine, and I'll be getting a Wii soon. I'm also getting quite bored of the games I've been replaying/speedrunning recently. With the next gen about to drop its payload over the coming year, I need something to tide me over.

Things I prioritize: replay value, speedrunnability, general good-ness, low price.

I'll start off with an obvious one: Vanquish (360/PS3, ~$10 used). If you like any kind of shooter then you should pick this up. It's a little like Gears meets Team Clover which makes sense considering it's a Platinum game.
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[Rud31]

cheap last-gen is gonna read just like the best of last gen for SB's tastes.

Bullet Witchhhhhhhhh. BW is all about replaying it. It is all about the good stuff. It is all low price. The speedrun factor is hilarious considering the final boss. Which I won't spoil.

My you're looking sexy Reed, have you checked out and contributed to our wonderful wiki.
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[MattCD42]

Would Pac Man CE count? I think that's a fun entry and cheap too.
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[tiburon]

El Shaddai looks like it could qualify, any opinions?

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[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

it's gorgeous (and I got it for £4 a couple of months after it came out)


but christ it's boring and blatantly unfinished

[Felix]

Fight Night Champion is pretty great and it's dirt cheap if you just buy the campaign and the local multiplayer since they sell the game modes individually (like $10, I think)

Wii-wise, get S&P2 if you haven't played that yet

Anarchy Reigns is pretty damn enjoyable as, like, Platinum does Power Stone meets Dynasty Warriors. it's a crying shame that the online-only multi is deserted but even brawling the AI is fun

Armored Core Verdict Day is real good and cheap now, get it

Red Faction Guerrilla is pretty dang fun despite its generally jankiness due to the destructible environments, that one is worth it

Trine 2 is a lot of fun multi, gorgeous to look at, and has lots of medium-difficulty puzzles that typically have non-fixed solutions

Witcher 2 is fucking excellent if you still haven't played it and I'm not sure of the quality of the 360 port but it's probably worth it

Sonic Generations is very alright, though don't just from the demo because Green Hill is kind of boring.

[Mikey]

The Club!

[Tokyo Rude]

Yeah mikeys right get the club.

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[jodeaux]

Blast Works for Wii is in every Gamestop bargain bin.

other notables:

- condemned 1 and 2
- kane and lynch 2
- ninja gaiden 2

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[notbov]

well, the last time I was at a GS, they had stacks of Bulletstorm sitting at the counter for 3 bucks

skip lunch one day and buy that when you pick up The Club
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[Dracko]

Just in time, Reed.
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[MattCD42]

Well I can say NOT to buy that ninja turtle game. I'm sure everyone is shocked to hear it was less than stellar. But a lot of cool stuff on there. Though that reminded me that most any halo game would probably be cheap by now. A lot of good FPS to be had from yesteryear.
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[Toto]

I'm a really big fan of both Dead Rising games and I'm pretty sure those can both be had for dirt cheap.

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[Gironika]

Split/Second is a brilliant arcade-racer. Get!
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[tiburon]

[Dracko]

I grabbed Devil May Cry 4, myself. Heard a lot of good, although of course Legendary Dark Knight mode isn't an option. I'd say at the price they're going, Gears 3, Deus Ex and Dishonoured are worth a peak if you're unfamiliar. The last two probably make for interesting speedrunning, Dishonoured especially. No clue for Gears games in general, though.

The Ground Zeroes sale doesn't seem to be valid in Europe...

How did the WayForward BloodRayne game turn out?
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[dementia]

Castle Shikigami 3 for Wii is like $2.99 used at gamestop

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[SuperWes]

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts - it doesn't quite meet your criteria, but it's an underrated game about building Lego cars that allow you to creatively solve complex problems. People didn't like it because it wasn't a collectathon platformer.

-Wes
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[Felix]

booting up the Nuts and Bolts demo in 2013 is actually a fairly horrifying experience -- big, expansive, empty-feeling levels, weird platformer physics, hideous bloom lighting, etc. it's like being trapped in some kind of horrible modern N64 nightmare. the game does actually have some decent parts to it, but I don't necessarily think it's worth overcoming that nightmarish first impression

I still haven't played more than the bulletstorm demo. it's fun! I'm just not at all confident I'd actually put much time into it.

[tiburon]

Ninja Gaiden 2 was 5 bux on XBL so I bought that
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[8128]

man i think the nightmarishness of nuts and bolts is worth pushing through

i actually even think it's sort of worth admiring!

this thread reminds me that i always meant to try that wii dragon quest swords game
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[BenoitRen]

Dragon Quest Swords is pretty cool. Do it! Just don't expect the motion to be 100% accurate.
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[jodeaux]

I will say again that Blast Works is an insanely good deal considering you get all the Kenta Cho games as unlockables

[Rud31]

:0 I didn't know that!
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[jodeaux]

it's so awesome, once you beat all the game modes you get rRootage, Gunroar, and Torus Trooper as unlockables, in addition to the original TUMIKI Fighters itself. It's the only way to own any Kenta Cho game on console thus far and under 5 bux!

[jodeaux]

One more thing, I just bought Alone In the Dark for 360. Anyone else played it? Seems pretty interesting

[tiburon]

Trials games: I got Evolution for like $5, that game rox

However I think it's back to $15 now
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[tiburon]

Also I need to softmod my Wii, I want to speedrun Super Metroid VC, if there's any good idiot-proof softmod method to get VC games, please do tell
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[kirby.png]

i want to see a SS speedrun of God Hard vanquish so bad
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[Rud31]

Alone in the Dark PS3 is a "fixed" version of AitD 360 and is still just this giant hot mess of really cool ideas barely held together.
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[kirby.png]

honestly it would probably involve dying a lot on purpose to get your grenades back
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[tiburon]

Do you get your grenades back when you die? I never realized. Thought you just got back whatever you had when you died
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You get full ammo + full grenades. I'm 100% sure about the grenades, not as much about the ammo.
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